Fourth Grade Programs
Fourth Grade Programs
The Lilly Center’s K-12 programs aspire to a high goal: develop water literacy in the children who will eventually lead our community. Students who engage with one or several of our programs leave with a deeper understanding of and appreciation for local water resources, as well as practical ways to care for them on their own.
Outdoor Field Trip Programs
Join us in September! Lake Adventure Day is offered each fall at various locations around the county. Students rotate through a series of hands-on stations to learn about water use, watersheds, fishing and more. Space is limited and fills up quickly, so make your reservations early.
Essential Questions: What are the steps in the water cycle? How does the water cycle affect us? What is a watershed? What is a topographical map? How do topographical maps inform us about watersheds? What is pollution and how does it move throughout the watershed?
Description: Lake Adventure Day is a day designed for 4th graders to learn about water use, pollution, and erosion among other lessons. Students will even have the chance to learn how to fish and possibly catch a fish. Classes will be split into three stations that are roughly 35 minutes long. Students will cycle through each station learning about new environmental topics as well as the popular fishing station. This event will allow students to engage in environmental lessons while also being outside away from the traditional classroom.
Indoor Field Trip Programs
Our most popular learning experience! Students rotate through all of the following stations during their 2-hour visit to the Lilly Center. They will interact with live animals, the Virtual Aquarium and the Augmented Reality Sand Tables while learning about local water quality impacts.
Essential Questions: What is an invasive species? How do invasive species affect our lake and stream ecosystems?
Description: While using our Augmented Reality Sand Tables, students discover the value and uses of topographical maps for scientists in monitoring watersheds in our county. After reviewing the definition of a watershed, students will replicate a portion of Kosciusko County and watch a simulation of water interacting with the community they have built.
Standards:
3.ESS.3: Analyze how natural events and human activities affect Earth’s surface.
3. LS.4: Observe how changes in an environment affect the organisms living there.
Essential Questions: What is a watershed? What is pollution, and how does it move throughout the watershed?
Description: In this lesson, students use a 3D model to visualize the movement of water and run-off in a watershed, experimenting with different pollutants in order to deepen an understanding of how pollution moves throughout our local watersheds.
Standards:
4-ESS2-2: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
CC.2: Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified, tested, and used to explain change.
Essential Questions: What are the steps in the water cycle? How does the water cycle affect us?
Description: How many rain drops was that? Through a colorful science experiment students define and explore the water cycle, discovering that the water cycle not only affects our local ecosystems and community, but also that humans have a direct impact on parts of the water cycle as well.
Standards:
ES. 4.3: Create a presentation that demonstrates the process of the water cycle on both local and global scales. Illustrate the process of water cycling both from the solid earth to the atmosphere and around the solid earth. Examine the interaction of groundwater, surface water, and ocean circulation. Illustrate the effects of human activity on water systems.
4.ESS.4 Develop solutions that could be implemented to reduce the impact of humans on the natural environment and the natural environment on humans.
Ready to book a field trip?
Reach out to Marc Andrews, Assistant Director of Education: andrewmw@grace.edu